Together with collaborators Professor Adam Eck (Oberlin College) and Professor Prashant Doshi (Univ. of Georgia), we recently received funding from NSF IIS Robust Intelligence program to do Multiagent Systems research in decentralized planning in complex and open environments.

With Co-PIs Wendy Smith, Gwen Nugent, Guy Trainin, and Kent Steen, last year we received funding from NSF’s CSforAll RPP program for our project to adapt, implement, and research K-12 CS education in the state of Nebraska (the AIR@NE project). Recently, we successfully concluded two summer courses, with a cohort of 28 teachers!

Together with collaborators Deepti Joshi, Ashok Samal, Regina Werum, and Mike Hayes, we have received new funding from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to expand our work on anticipating social unrest!

We recently received new funding from the Library of Congress to continue to work on our intelligent analysis of historical documents. Ph.D. students Yi Liu and Mike Pack are now in Washington, D.C. to work with the Library of Congress. They will be there for six weeks.

The RICE Lab recently presented two technical papers at SIGCSE’2019, presented a poster at RESPECT’2019, presented a poster at the CSforAll RPP session at SIGSCE’2019, organized a successful workshop on computational creativity at SIGCSE’2019, and presented the IC2Think project at the NSF Showcase at the conference.

Together with PI Behzad Esmaeili of George Mason University, and Mike Dodd (UNL), Professor Soh (as Co-PI) received funding to do research in intelligent decision making, from NSF Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences, “Collaborative Research: Measuring Attention, Working Memory, and Visual Perception to Reduce Risk of Injuries in the Construction Industry”